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Hendigo vs Wendigo - What's the difference?

hendigo | wendigo |

As nouns the difference between hendigo and wendigo

is that hendigo is a combination of henna and indigo, used as a hair dye while wendigo is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

hendigo

English

Noun

  • A combination of henna and indigo, used as a hair dye.
  • An event of dyeing with henna and indigo.

    • Alternative forms

    *henndigo *hennindigo

    wendigo

    English

    Noun

  • * 1905 : Ernest Thompson Seton, Woodmyth & Fable
    • [N]''o man can meet with the Wendigo''', / No man can face him or see him; / Only his track in the snow is seen, / And lost is the hunter that sees it.''...'' The heart that ne'er quailed on the war-path / Turns to stone at the name of the ' Wendigo .
  • *2003 : Sidney Harring (edited by Louis A. Knafla), The Wendigo Killings: The Legal Penetration of Canadian Law into the Spirit World of the Ojibwa and Cree Indians'' (in ''Violent Crime in North America , 19th edition)
    • Machekequonabe, an Ojibwa, was found guilty of manslaughter in an 1896 trial for killing a “wendigo',” an evil spirit clothed in human flesh.''...'' There is an extensive anthropological literature on the '''wendigo''' and on '''wendigo''' killings in Native Canada. The '''wendigo'' ... were cannibal spirits that could inhabit the bodies of living people, causing them to kill even members of their family.
  • *2004 : Michael Jensen, Firelands
    • Once there, however, I found no signs indicating the way John and the wendigo might have gone.

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